Today is the birthday of the Chinese player Singaporean famous Athlete Feng Tianwei, WTT World Table Tennis Federation official website posted a happy birthday to her, the text praised Feng Tianwei has been brave to move forward, as follows:
Table tennis brings you infinite happiness and inspires you to move forward bravely, the years are like shuttles, after hard work, but the dream is worth it.
Born on August 31, 1986, Feng Tianwei is now 35 years old, and although she is not at the peak because of her age and injury, she can still maintain her ranking in the top ten in the world table tennis, which shows Feng Tianwei's self-discipline and strength. In the latest edition of the world rankings, Feng Tianwei ranked tenth.
Mentioning Feng Tianwei, we have to mention Xiaojue Liu Shiwen and Ito Mimako, as well as Zhu Yuling and Ding Ning. Why? Because I feel that the emergence of Feng Tianwei has also changed the career of the main players in national table tennis. For example, in Moscow in 2010, Feng Tianwei defeated Ding Ning Liu Shiwen successively, won two points for Singapore, and became the biggest contributor to the women's group's championship, while Xiao zao Liu Shiwen was just the opposite, because she lost to Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu, becoming a "criminal minister". As a result, she was missing the 2012 Olympic squad. It can be said that Feng Tianwei at her peak was the number one opponent of Chinese women's table tennis. She has also defeated almost all the main players, even Zhang Yining has lost to her, such as the 2008 Asian Cup women's singles quarter-finals in Sapporo, Japan, 21-year-old Feng Tianwei defeated Zhang Yining 4-2 to reach the semifinals.
Taking stock of Feng Tianwei's peak period, the highlight of the period is probably 2010-2015, in addition to defeating the Chinese team led by Ding Ning Liu Shiwen in the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships to win the Women's Team Championships, she also won the WOMEN's Singles Championship of the ITTF Finals in 2010. In 2012, she led the team to the second place in the World Table Tennis Championships. In addition, at the 2012 London Olympic Games, she also won the third place in women's singles, stood on the podium with Li Xiaoxia Dingning, and won the third place in the women's team competition, and also served as the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of Singapore.
In the 2015 Asian Cup women's singles final, Feng Tianwei once again played well and won the women's singles championship by defeating Liu Shiwen in the final, which also became an indirect reason why Xiao zao Liu Shiwen was the world's first on the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games, or the 2015 World Cup women's singles champion and the Suzhou World Championships women's singles runner-up but could not get the Olympic singles quota. Just like Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling now, they still do not have an advantage in the face of their main competitor Ito Mimako, which is also the reason why they lost the Olympic list.
Ito's highlights were in the 2018 Swedish Open and the 2020 Qatar Open, with Sweden Open Ito winning consecutive victories over Liu Shiwen Dingning and Zhu Yuling, especially in the final match with Zhu Yuling, who finished the opponent 4-0. At the 2020 Qatar Open, Ito made a comeback in the face of the active Grand Slam Ding Ning, she kept a clean sheet against Ding Ning 4-0, and also played an 11-0 score in the third set. This directly led to Ding Ning Zhu Yuling's lack of access to the Tokyo Olympic lineup, which is similar to Feng Tianwei's lethality!
So the question is, who do you think Feng Tianwei and Ito Mimachi were at their peak? Xiaobian thinks that maybe it may be Ito Mimachi, after all, she and Mizutani Hayabusa won the Olympic mixed doubles championship, maybe she will still have potential? What do you think?